PHTN-67-000048 - The Photon operating system must initiate auditing as part of the boot process.

Information

Each process on the system carries an 'auditable' flag, which indicates whether its activities can be audited. Although auditd takes care of enabling this for all processes that launch after it starts, adding the kernel argument ensures the flag is set at boot for every process on the system. This includes processes created before auditd starts.

Solution

Open /boot/grub2/grub.cfg with a text editor and locate the boot command line arguments. An example follows:

linux '/'$photon_linux root=$rootpartition net.ifnames=0 $photon_cmdline coredump_filter=0x37 consoleblank=0

Add 'audit=1' to the end of the line so it reads as follows:

linux '/'$photon_linux root=$rootpartition net.ifnames=0 $photon_cmdline coredump_filter=0x37 consoleblank=0 audit=1

Note: Do not copy/paste in this example argument line. This may change in future releases. Find the similar line and append 'audit=1' to it.

Reboot the system for the change to take effect.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_6-7_Y23M07_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-14(1), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001464, Rule-ID|SV-239119r675165_rule, STIG-ID|PHTN-67-000048, Vuln-ID|V-239119

Plugin: Unix

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